Seems like the computername is nowhere to be found in spiceworks. The inventory item is named after the computername, but if the computername changes, the actual name of the device is not updated to reflect the change.

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If Spiceworks fully scans a system and retrieves serial information about the hardware, it will update a hostname to reflect a change. If the device did not scan in that information previously there is no way for Spiceworks to identify that they are the same device and update it. In these circumstances you will have to manually delete the old inventory entries.

I have noticed this in my installation of Spiceworks. I have incremental scanning disabled, however when I change a computer name or format/reinstall OS and use another computer name - spiceworks scanning does not change the device's name, just host name information.